Black Holes to Blackboards-God Divided by Zero
Laying your hands on a black hole is hard (and dangerous) to do, but there are ways to understand these objects and avoid the pain of dimension-bending.
No Escape: The Truth about Black Holes
Interactive activity designed to teach about black holes.
Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars
Here you will find descriptions and MPEG movies that take you on trips to black holes and neutron stars. These movies are scientifically accurate computer animations using Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
Anatomy of A Black Hole
Educational sequence suitable for high school students.
Numerical Relativity Movies
Virtual reality and informational movies on black holes. This site is associated with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications(NCSA), and is for students in middle school and above.
Falling into a Black Hole
Fall into a black hole on a real free fall orbit. All distortions of images are real, both general relativistic from the gravitational bending of light, and special relativistic from the near light speed orbit.
Black Hole FAQ
Answers to black hole questions like "How big is a black hole?" ,"How do black holes evaporate?", and "What is a wormhole?".
HubbleSite - NewsCenter Archive
Articles about and photos of black holes.
Ask a High-Energy Astronomer: Black Holes
Commonly-asked questions, and a way to ask an astronomer a question about black holes.
A Mystery in the Galactic Center
A NASA article describing the likelihood that a black hole can be found at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
'Death Spiral' Around a Black Hole Yields Tantalizing Evidence of Event Horizon
Death Spiral Around a Black Hole Yields Tantalizing Evidence of Event Horizon. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope may have, for the first time, provided direct evidence for the existence of black holes by observing the disappearance of matter.
The Space Place: Fall into a Black Hole
A printable board game from NASA.
Black Holes
What is a black hole and how do we know it exists?(for K-4th graders)
Black Holes
Information about black holes and how we know they exist, links to glossary terms and a movie about a "Journey into a Blackhole."
Black Holes and Neutron Stars
Offers a non-technical discussion about black holes and neutron stars. Topics include what they are, how they are form, and how to detect them.
Jillian's Guide to Black Holes
Introduction to the types, formation, and environment inside and outside of black holes.
Howstuffworks "How Black Holes Work"
Black holes are some of the most amazing objects in the universe -- they may even hold many galaxies together! Learn all about them!
The Black Hole at the center of our Galaxy
About the 2004 discovery that the center of our galaxy holds a black hole 3.7 million times heavier than the Sun
Naked Singularity
This site was created by Mark O'Brien and John Chang for their end-of-the-year physics project during their junior year at Clackamas High School in Milwaukie, Oregon. Their assignment was to create an informative webpage for future physics students. The result is the black hole website you see here.
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